Economics
You can make notes on drivers and collect the most relevant ones by saving them to your profile.
- Bringing markets into public services
- Consumer spending and confidence
- Consumption culture & personal debt
- Corporate giving
- Corporate responsibility
- Credit crunch
- Direct payments and individual accounts
- Economic downturn
- Efficiency and value for money
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Expectations of evidence
- Global population movement
- Globalisation of markets
- Green taxation
- Housing market
- Increase in role of VCS in public ser...
- Inequality between local areas
- Inflation
- Interest rates
- International institutions
- Labour market
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Levels of public spending
- Loan finance
- New philanthropists
- Planned individual giving
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Poverty and inequality
- Power of multinationals
- Procurement practice
- Public attitudes towards domestic pov...
- Social enterprise
- Stock market performance
Feeling overwhelmed?
As you can see, there are many drivers that are shaping the future of voluntary and community organisations. The good news is that you can put most of them to one side in your own strategic planning.
Read our introduction to strategic analysis and find out how to sort and prioritise drivers. The guide takes you through the five stages of strategic analysis and there are templates to download to help you organise your thoughts.


